Death Finds a Way: A Janie Riley Mystery by Lorine McGinnis Schulze. Janie Riley is an avid genealogist with a habit of stumbling on to dead bodies. She and her husband head to Salt Lake City Utah to research Janie's elusive 4th great-grandmother. But her search into the past leads her to a dark secret.
A: The most abundant isotope of magnesium has 12 neutrons; it is therefore, technically known as magnesium-24. Calculating the number of neutrons in an isotope of any element involves subtracting that element's atomic number from its atomic weight. Magnesium's number is 12, and its weight is just over 24.
The number of protons and electrons (in a neutral atom) are equal to the atomic number of the atom. For example in a, the number of protons and electrons in magnesium is 12.To find neutrons, you take the atomic mass of the atom and subtract the number of protons.For Magnesium, you subtract 12 from 25 to find the number of neutrons, which in this case is 13.he number of protons and electrons (in a neutral atom) are equal to the atomic number of the atom. For example in a, the number of protons and electrons in magnesium is 12.